"Addie" tells Joseph that she had feared him dead until she heard from him yesterday. His last letter came in February. There are many soldiers returning home, though "they do not love the idea of the rebels [living] around them." She tells him...

"Dear Sir. There is woman in town who says that Polk Pain told the day you got him that there was to be a raid on this place and that ten of the boys belonging to your company was ready to go with them when they came and that they was to capture as...

"The Lost Cause," book signed by Thomas Jefferson Warr of Somerville, Tennessee. Thomas Jefferson Warr was born in Hardin County, Tenn., on August 26, 1839. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and was serving in Phillips' Battery at the time of his...

.58 caliber, cap-and-ball muzzle loader made by gunsmith around 1849 in Townsend, Tennessee. Used by Adam Wilson (1841-1919). He carried it throughout the Civil War. The brass trigger guard possibly made out of brass candle stick. Wilson was a...

1865 presidential election is over & LV is surprised that there is no hue & cry over the election either for or against. She received a letter from Lide. She & family spent the summer at Mackinaw & Cheboygan & returned to Memphis in October. Col....

A Bible belonging to Richard Moore Young. Young was born on April 1, 1842, in Putnam County, Tennessee. He served in the 28th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., of Putnam County. His family gave him the Bible when he left and he carried it...

A Hardin County, Tennessee native, from Coffee Landing less than 10 miles from Shiloh, Pvt. Joseph I. Mahar enlisted in Co. F, 13th Ill. Cav., USA in December 1863 and served in Arkansas until the outfit was disbanded on August 31, 1865. Earlier in...

A native of Gibson County, Tenn., Patterson (known as Berry), served as a private in Co. B, 47th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. The certificate documents his transfer as a paroled prisoner of war from Cairo, Ill., to Trenton, Tenn.

Affidavit of John Thomas Wright concerning the 4th Tennessee Cavalry, Mr. James Burke and Mr. Hurse Burke. In this affidavit, John Thomas Wright testifies that there were two companies that eventually became members of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry. ...

Affidavit of W. T. Robinson signed by William C. Rawola, Notary Public, on the status of property lost by Company K, 5th Tennessee Cavalry, including one axe and eight horses, to accompany a statement of differences in the Quartermaster's Stores...